Emily Econie, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

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About

Emily Econie is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in Grantville, San Diego, practicing through LifeStance Health's office at 6386 Alvarado Ct, Suite 210, in the 92120 ZIP. She holds a BA in Psychology and an MS in Homeland Security from San Diego State University, followed by a BSN and MSN from Azusa Pacific University. Econie's integrative model emphasizes the interaction between psychiatric medication, lifestyle factors, and somatic health, an approach that parallels the acupuncture-based nervous system regulation offered at We Love Acupuncture on Mission Gorge Road. Before entering psychiatric care in 2021, she worked in law enforcement and as an Emergency Medical Technician, then transitioned to clinical nursing in San Diego's highest-volume emergency departments and acute inpatient psychiatric units. That first-responder background informs her subspecialty in first-responder stress, military and veteran mental health, and crisis-related psychiatric conditions. Her prescribing scope covers medication management for ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, PTSD, panic attacks, and perinatal mood disorders including PMS and PMDD. The LifeStance office is LGBTQ+ affirming and designated as a transgender safe space, treating patients from age six through senior adults across both in-person and telehealth formats. For patients presenting with acute psychiatric crises that exceed outpatient capacity, the walk-in medical team at Perlman Clinic Mission Gorge provides same-day triage less than a mile north on Mission Gorge Road. The Alvarado Court location sits off the I-8 near the Grantville trolley station, placing it within the Alvarado Medical Center healthcare cluster that anchors this section of the corridor.